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APPLIOATION FILED FEB.23, 1909.

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VICTOR JOHNSON, 0F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-FOURTH TO OSCAR SANDHOLM, OF ROCKAWAY BEACH, NEW YORK.

CONVEYER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 23, 1909.

Patented Mar. 21, 1911.

Serial no. 479,518.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR JOHNSON, a resident of the borough of Queens, in the city and State of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements in lonveyers, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact specification, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to that class of conveyers in which buckets are hung from an endless chain or the like, and it is especially designed to operate horizontally, or on inclines so that materials may be conveyed from one point and dumped at any desired location.

The invention resides in certain special features of construction and combinations of parts which will be fully described hereinafter and particularly pointed, out in the claims.

Reference is now had to the accompanying drawings which illustrate as an example the preferred embodiment of my invention.

In these drawings: Figure 1 is a plan view with parts broken away and certain of the buckets omitted; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the driving end of the conveyer; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the opposite end of the conveyer; Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail of the trip; and Fig. 5 is a sectional elevation of the same.

The conveyer may be constructed of any length desired; in the drawings only the end portions of the conveyer have been shown since it is there impossible to illustrate the whole length.

In its main parts the conveyer comprises two heavy sheaves 10 and 11 over which runs an endless cable 12 carrying the buckets 14:- These sheaves 10 and 11 as shown in Figs. 2, 2 and 3 are mounted on a bed 15 carrying vertical studs 16 forming the axes of the sheaves; and if desired anti-friction bearings 17 may be provided. The sheave 1.0 is provided as shown in Fig. 3 with worm teeth 18 on its periphery, above which teeth is a runway 19 and below a track 20. The sheave 11 is similarly constructed excepting that the worm teeth are not provided. The sheave 10 is the driving sheave and its teeth 18 are in mesh with a worm 21 mounted by suitable devices at the side of the sheave 10 adjacent to the sheave 11.

22 indicates a step mounted on the base 15 of the sheave 10 and having a roller 23 on which runs the track 20 of the sheave to brace and prevent vibration of the sheave.

The buckets 14 have bails 241 which are connected to U-shaped hangers 25, thus sustaining the buckets; and the hangers are joined to the cable 12 through the medium of clamps 26 preferably in the form of thimbles. In order to insure the uniform diameter of the cable, notwithstanding the clamps 26, I fasten to the cable between the clamps a number of directly contiguous thimbles 27. These are uniform with the thimbles 26 constituting the clamps and the cable therefore is free to run around the sheaves in the manner shown in the drawings. The hangers 25 embrace the periphery of the sheaves so that the buckets may hang freely and clear of the sheaves in the manner shown in Fig. 3. Further, the driving worm 21 being located at the inner side of the sheave 10 does not interfere with the movement of the cable and buckets as described.

It will be observed that the buckets are open at their upper sides to receive the materials handled and that at their inner sides the buckets are tapered as at 14. which allows them to pass freely and without cramping around the sheaves. The bottoms of the buckets are formed with openings 14" which are closed by arc-shaped gates 29. These gates are mounted to swing to open or closed position by means of bails 3O pivoted on the buckets in such a way that the gates normally move by gravity to closed position. The bails are provided with eX- tensions 31 which are adapted to strike trip rollers 82. Of these trip devices any number may be employed. I have shown only the cable and holds the trip device. The

trip device carries a shield 38 which covers a part ofthe cable 36' to protect it from materials'falling from thebuckets. The shield 38 has at its outer end a roller 39 running on the cable 36 to. support the shield. v

In the operation of the invention the mafl-tei ials to be conveyedare charged into the buckets. This may be done while the conveyer 1s 1n motion, owing to the close ux- As the main cable 12 runs with the sheaves the buckets are moved carrying their loads. The trip device is then adjusted to the point at which it is desired to .dump the materials. As a result, as the buckets reach the trip device the gates 29 are opened and the materials fal'lfrom the buckets on a dump pile or into any receptacle or conveyance which may be provided for this purpose.

7 Having thus described my invention What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is;'

l; A conveyer comprising a sheave, a cable running over it, a bucket, means including a .thimble on the cable toconnect the bucket thereto and other thimbles secured to the cable intermediate the first named thimbles and directly contiguous to each other, for the purpose specified.

2. A conveyer having dumping buckets, a trip device for said buckets, a sustaining means for said trip device and a shield carried by the trip device and protecting said sustaining means.

3. Aconveyercomprising a sheave, a cable running over said sheave, a plurality of buckets, means including thimbles on the cable for connecting the buckets thereto and means along said cable intermediate said thimbles for spacing them apart.

In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

. VICTOR JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

' IsAAo B. OWENS,

B. Brcen.

Copies of this, patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. C. 

